Revealed: Nine-year-old stowaway went missing the night BEFORE he sneaked onto plane as official report lays bare his full troubled history

The nine-year-old boy from Minneapolis who slipped through TSA security checkpoints to hop a Las Vegas-bound Delta jet without a ticket on October 2 - more than 24 hours before the boy's parents told anyone that he had vanished.

In a court petition filed on Friday by Hennepin County prosecutors, it was revealed that the boy is well-known to police and child services. The boy is not being named by MailOnline because he is a juvenile.

The outcome of a hearing in the next three days could mean the boy is not returned to the family, MailOnline has learned.

'Good parents': V.J. Smith, right, who appeared alongside the boy's hooded father at a bizarre press conference, claimed to MailOnline that the boy's mother and father 'did everything good parents do'

‘There's a wide range of options,’ said Chuck Laszewski, spokesman for the Hennepin County Attorney’s office.

‘Removing the child temporarily from the home or it might involve getting a social worker to be brought to the child.’

According to the six-page petition, the child is known to habitually run away. On one occasion, he went missing for two to three days after leaving home in a rage.

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On October 1, the boy survived a horrifying crash after he stole and totaled a noodle-delivery truck. He smashed it into several cars, including a police squad car, causing thousands of dollars worth of damage.

The report states that following the pile-up, the boy was uncooperative with police officers.

Despite the row, the officers ultimately ‘released him back’ to his mother.

The boy's father on Thursday claimed
that his son had thought he was playing video game Grand Theft Auto at
the time of the accident.

In the nine-year-old's most recent disappearance, his mother had discovered he was missing on October 2.

But rather than quickly contact
authorities, the parents waited until early evening on October 3 to report that their son was missing.

Troubled youth: It has emerged that the boy stole this truck and crashed it after a short police chase just two days before his cross-country jaunt

The original police report said they told officers he had only been gone 'for a few hours,' according to law enforcement sources.

When quizzed, the mother, who allegedly told police officers that she doesn’t use ‘physical discipline’ said she wasn’t aware her son had managed to get on a flight to Las Vegas.

A family friend has told MailOnline that the parents thought they needed to wait for 48 hours before informing authorities that their son had vanished.

He added that they 'thought he must be somewhere'.

In the most recent getaway, the nine-year-old was taking out the trash when he decided to head for Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport.

Once at the terminal, he lifted a black-roller suitcase from a baggage claim carousel and stole a chicken and soda lunch from an airport restaurant.

The boy told a waiter that he needed to use the bathroom and then skipped out on the bill.

The nine-year-old appears to have spent the night in the airport terminal and the following day, he evaded three security checkpoints to grab a free seat on an uncrowded Delta jet bound for Las Vegas.

The crew caught on to the nine-year-old's stunt - but only when the plane was 40,000ft in the air.

Once
he landed in Las Vegas, the boy was brought into custody, placed in a
shelter where, according to the court petition, he became violent.

He became so hostile that at one point, Nevada authorities admitted him to hospital.

‘He
was initially placed in a shelter facility but engaged in aggressive
behavior requiring a hospital hold,’ the petition states.

The
boy’s bad behavior seems to have escalated during a suspension from
school ‘for aggressive behavior'. He has been suspended in the past.

While suspended from school for the month of October, each parent shared the duties of supervising the boy.

While his mother goes to the airport to work a shift, the boy ‘goes with his father to work', the report states.

When his mother is not at work, the boy 'stays at home with her'.

Leaving: The runaway boy flew to Las Vegas from Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport on a Delta plane like this one, pictured. It was only discovered mid-air that he had no ticket

The boy had been taking advantage of the lax parenting and developed a 'tendancy to spend the night at peoples’ houses without permission;.

Since July, the 9-year-old has reportedly experienced fits of rage, causing him to flee from the family’s two-story home in North Minneapolis. At times, he would not return for 'two to three days'.

‘The mother stated that '[sic] started not coming home during the summer and walking out when he as mad'.

On August 3, while he was supposed to be spending an afternoon at the library studying, the boy then didn’t come home until 'the next morning'.

His mother went to bed at around 10pm, court papers say, without knowing where her son was.

She finally called the police at 1pm the next day and reported the boy missing. He reappeared 'a few minutes later at a park'.

On September 18, the boy was caught taking an after-hours dip in a Minneapolis YMCA pool 'unsupervised'.

The report states: 'Police were called as he refused to say who his parents were or provide information to the YWCA staff.'

The boy kept his identity from the officers and was ultimately taken to St. Joseph’s Home for Children.

The next day the boy’s mother said he had vanished while shopping with his mother at a downtown Minneapolis Target store.

The mother reached out to security staff who spotted the boy leaving the store on surveillance cameras.

According to the court petition, this case was closed 'without a finding of maltreatment as there was not preponderance of evidence that neglect had occurred'.

The boy was apparently seeing a therapist. For unexplained reasons, he hasn’t been to therapy since August 13.

The mother allegedly did not want to accept alternative counselling at the time.

At a bizarre press conference on Thursday , the nine-year-old's father hid his face in a hoodie and baseball cap and sobbed as he said that he had asked the authorities for help with the boy on countless occasions but received none.

He even blamed the airport for his son’s behavior, railing at the lack of security that allowed his boy to go through three sets of checks unchallenged before getting on a plane.